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THE KNIGHTS OF THE CROSS.
from the one to Ryngalla. Hast thou met a more beautiful maiden?"
"What is her beauty to me? Take her when she grows up, if she is the daughter of a great comes."
Zbyshko's face grew bright with a kindly smile.
"That may happen too. No other lady, no other wife. When your bones grow weak you will nurse my grandchildren and hers."
Then Matsko smiled in turn, and he said, entirely pacified:
"Hail! Hail! Storms of them, and let them be like hail! Joy for old age, and salvation after death. Give that to us, O Jesus."
